![]() Near the end of the movie, I started to cry like a baby. I was an orphan and identified with this child's yearning and searching for his parents. ![]() This movie 'August Rush' really touched my soul. We get it in the first few minutes of the movie, so hammering it home in semi-surreal sequences can be a bit obtrusive. 'August Rush' touched something buried deep inside my soul seventy six years ago. I think it could have been handled a little better though, mostly by removing some of the sequences earlier in the film. One could almost infer that the more August learns about music, the less he hears it, although I don’t think that’s the point I think it just coincides with a need for the central story to become the primary focus. ![]() Oddly, as August actually starts to learn about music, these vignettes become less common. It’s slightly gimmicky, especially when you consider that acts like Stomp have been using everyday items for percussion sounds for years now. The movie breaks occasionally from narrative storytelling to reveal the music that comes from August’s world in slightly surreal editing. Meanwhile, fate is reuniting August’s biological parents, a concert cellist ( Keri Russell) and a rock musician (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who actually only got together for one night eleven years ago the night when August was conceived.Īs a film that theorizes about a unifying theme in music, August Rush has a bit of a surreal edge to it. To describe August Rush as a piece of shameless hokum doesn’t quite do justice to the potentially shock-inducing sugar content of this contemporary fairy tale. He renames the kid “August Rush,” and tries to manage the kid’s career. Wizard sees the child’s gift for music, which he wants to use for his own personal gain. ![]() The kid is convinced that he is still connected to his parents through a mysterious tune that comes to him through just about anything that makes sound, so he sneaks away from the orphanage and into the big city, where he is “adopted” by Wizard (Robin Williams), the leader of a collection of street performing children. The odd title of the movie comes from the lead character: a young orphan who sneaks away from the orphanage to find his real parents. Wonderfully rewarding urban fairy tale about a 12-year-old prodigy (the marvelous Freddie Highmore) who heads to New. ![]()
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